A treatise concerning the Lords Supper

Now I beseech you, see what the Passover was to the Jews, and consider that that the Lords Supper is to us, and there will appear the same parity of reason for our receiving of this, as for the Jews eating of that.

Now I beseech you, see what the Passeover was to the Jews, and consider that that the Lords Supper is to us, and there will appear the same parity of reason for our receiving of this, as for the Jews eating of that.

Secondly, It is the plain Injunction of our dying Lord, that we should do this in remembrance of him; Why do you pray? One reason you will give is, because God Commands it: And if you pray because God commands you, you must then do every thing that God commands you, and so this: Is it not strictly commanded? Read Luk 22.19 The whole is commanded. This do in remembrance of me, Mat. 26.26, 27. The particular Acts are commanded, Take, Eat, Drink, & will you say you will not? Will that become a Disciple of Christ? You say not, you will not, but you know you do not, and that is as bad.

Thirdly, Christ did ordain it for this very end, that believers should have a remembrance of him in the partaking of this Ordinance: We are apt to forget the Works of ⟨p. 17⟩God, Psal. 106.13. Too apt to forget the benefits we received from God, Psal. 103.2. But which is most to be wondered at, we are too prone to forget God our Saviour, to forget him that delivered us from the curse of the Law, by being made a Curse for us: From the wrath of God, by bearing it himself; from the sting of death, by dying for us,